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First Global Australian Languages Workshop (GALW1) Does Pintupi-Luritja tjinguru mean maybe? Maybe JAMES GRAY [email protected] Thanks to all the Anangu tjuta I worked with for their time and generosity with their language; with these issues particularly Nantayah Nakamarra Tjonggarda, Makisha Anderson, and Matthew Brown. Thanks to Jane Simpson and Carmel O’Shannessy for discussion. Thanks to CoEDL and ANU for funding (Project ID: CE140100041, an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, and HDR funding from SLLL) Two take-aways for today: 1. Tjinguru is a marker of epistemic uncertainty, however it is not sensitive to modal strength or knowledge source. It therefore covers more empirical ground than e.g. English Maybe 2. It has some uses that don’t assume the speaker is ignorant: v One is similar to conditionals, like ‘suppose’ contexts, or hypotheticals v One is similar to disjunction v These non-ignorant uses behave differently under negation to ignorant uses A road map for today: v Pintupi-Luritja v Epistemic modality v Tjinguru as ignorant epistemic marker v Non-ignorant uses of tjinguru v The interaction with negation This is a work in progress, so I’m looking forward to hearing feedback. I’m sure there are a number of quite comparable particles in many Australian languages so I would also be interested in hearing of comparisons! Pintupi-Luritja Pintupi-Luritja is a Western Desert language spoken in central Australia It’s spoken from roughly Papunya (Warumpi) and Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) in the east, through to Kintore (Walungurru) in the west As a rough indication, the 2016 census reports that 2155 people entered Pintupi or Luritja as a language spoken at home (Although note for example that The geographic range of the Western Desert the name Luritja is also used for some other Western Desert language; Pintupi and Luritja are listed individually varieties as well) as 15 and 5 respectively Map from Dousset (2011) Epistemic modality • Modality here regards ways of talking about the world not necessarily as it is, but how it might be, should be, must be, etc. • This is expressed via a variety of ways cross-linguistically (with verbs like the English examples, but also via particles, inflectional marking, constructions, among others) Epistemic modality concerns speaker judgement on the truth of a proposition according to their knowledge; this can be contrasted with e.g. deontic modality, which is evaluated according to a set of rules or norms: (1) They keys aren’t in the car– I must have left them at home epistemic (2) You must wash your hands before entering deontic Epistemic modality • We’re also going to make a distinction in modal strength. In epistemic terms, this is generally the difference in English between might and must (3) We should consider a plan B for the party this weekend– it might rain. Modal strength: weak (4) Her car’s not in the driveway– she must have already left Modal strength: strong A general intuition here involves the degree of commitment by the speaker to the truth of the proposition (something like “considers it possible” in (3) but “considers it very likely” in (4)), but there is more to it… Epistemic modality Modal strength in the epistemic modal real cross-linguistically seems to be tightly connected to topics like evidentiality and information source (e.g.Matthewson et al 2007, Mandelkern 2018) Taking English as an example, wild guesses tend to be represented with weak modal strength (5) [A long lost friend hands you a nondescript box on your birthday and insists you guess] It might be a chess set Strong modals need more evidence, e.g. (in)direct evidence, deduction (6) [Looking at old summer holiday photos where everyone is wearing jackets and beanies] It must have been cold that year The more concrete and direct the evidence, the less likely you are to use modalised language at all: (7) [Opens the fridge and sees a half-full bottle of milk] # We must still have some milk We still have some milk Epistemic modality Not all languages encode modal strength, either in part of or all of their modal system (e.g. Peterson 2010, Rullmann et al 2008, Vander Klok 2013…) Spoiler: Tjinguru doesn’t seem to be sensitive to distinctions in strength either. With it being the apparently only way to express epistemic modality, I’ll draw the conclusion that modal strength doesn’t play a role in epistemic modality in Pintupi-Luritja Tjinguru as an ignorant epistemic marker The take away: Tjinguru marks ignorance of the speaker wrt the truth of the proposition, but it is apparently not sensitive to information source– that is, whether wild guesses, via indirect evidence or deduction. This means that it covers epistemic ground that is split in English between might and must Weak epistemic modality Prompt: You will stay at a friend’s house while they are away. You get to the house and realise they forgot to tell you where the key is. You don’t know but guess and say: “The key might be under the flowerpot.” Information source: Wild guess Presumed modal strength: weak (8) Yaka, kii yaalytji? Tjinguru ngaatja yunngu ngarri-nyi! Goodness key where maybe DEM inside lie-PRS Goodness where’s the key? Maybe it’s in here! JAG1-20200315_ModalsMaNg; 36.28–36.40 Note: translations not specified for their origin are my own Weak epistemic modality Prompt: You say to Tjakamarra that you will meet at 8 in the morning, but he doesn’t turn up. You say: “He might be still asleep.” Information source: Wild guess Presumed modal strength: weak (9) Tjinguru paluru yanku ngarri-nyi. maybe 3SG.NOM asleep lie-PRS Maybe he’s asleep. JAG1-20200315_ModalsMaNg; 37.29–37.32 Note too that tjinguru qualifies as expressing weak modality because sentences like (Rullmann et al 2008) I’ll leave aside what (10) It’s possible that x, it’s possible that not x apparently stronger modal are possible; this should be a contradiction with stronger forms like must readings mean for this Examples to come! Strong epistemic modality Prompt: You are sleeping in bed, and wake up. You see your friend walk inside all wet. You say to yourself: “It must be raining.” Information source: Reasoning through direct visual evidence Presumed modal strength: strong (11) Yaka, ngaatja nyuma! Tjinguru kapi-ngku pu-nganyi. goodness DEM wet maybe rain-ERG hit-PRS Goodness, it’s wet! Maybe it’s raining. JAG1-20200315_ModalsMaNg; 30.42–30.48 Strong epistemic modality Prompt: There’s a football game between Papunya and Yuendumu in Papunya. You drive to Papunya from Alice Springs to see it, but you’re just too late– it’s just finished when you arrive. You don’t know who won but you see all the Papunya people look happy and all the Yuendumu people look sad. You say: “Papunya must have won!” Information source: Reasoning through (?in)direct visual evidence Presumed modal strength: strong (12) Tjinguru=na kuli-nu tjinguru Pupanya wina-rri-ngu, tumatji Pupanyi ngurrara tjuta pukulpa nyina-ngu maybe=1SG.Subj think-PST maybe Papunya win-INCH-PST because Papunya DENIZ many happy sit-PST Maybe I think, maybe Papunya won, because all of the people from Papunya were happy. JAG1-20200830_Modals; 16.57–17.05 Strong epistemic modality Prompt: We have three cups on the ground in front of us. I put a ball under one of the cups and move them around. We look under the first, the ball is not there. We look under the second, the ball is not there either. So... Information source: Reasoning through deduction Presumed modal strength: strong (13) Ngaa-ngka wiya, ngaa-ngka wiya, tjinguru ngaa-ngka ngarri-nyi. DEM-LOC NEG DEM-LOC NEG maybe DEM-LOC lie-PRS (It’s) not here, not here; maybe it’s in this one. JAG1-20201209_MaNg; 33.25–33.30 Some basic conclusions on tjinguru as an epistemic marker • It expresses that the speaker is not sure of the truth of the proposition, but considers it (at least) possible • It does not however seem to reflect how likely the speaker considers the proposition to be true • It is also seemingly not influenced by information source; wild guesses, reasoning via (in)direct evidence, and deduction all seem to be covered by tjinguru. • Therefore, (some degree of) speaker ignorance to the truth of the proposition is the only necessary condition on its use. Non-ignorant uses of tjinguru Type one: the conditional Let’s compare the previous examples with the following, from a Papunya newsletter: (14) Tjinguru nyuntu ngurrpa mutukayi palya-nytjaku nyuntu makanika kati nyuntu-lawana Maybe 2SG.NOM ignorant car fix-PURP 2SG.ERG mechanic take.IMP 2SG-PERL (Source translation): If you don’t know how to check the car you should take a mechanic with you so he’ll help you how to do it. Tjakulpa kuwarritja (December 1985, p.6) • This is a hypothetical situation, translated into English with a conditional Even though they • The speaker is not really expressing their ignorance about the proposition, might be ignorant! more inviting the addressee to imagine it were true for the sake of exploring what it would mean if it were true Cf. “Maybe you don’t know how to fix a car…” Non-ignorant uses of tjinguru Type one: the conditional Another example: (15) Tjinguru nyuntu yunytju-rri-nganyi yara waka-ntjaku piipa ngaa-ku yini yalatji Tjakulpa Kuwarri-tja. Maybe 2SG.NOM desire-INCH-PRS story write-PURP paper DEM-DAT name thus news now-NMLZ (lit.) Maybe you want to write a story for this paper, Tjakulpa Kuwarritja.
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